Sports Columns
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Simply, Moran special playerFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - The Jacobs boys basketball team went to Plan B early. Really, though, it was Plan A disguised as Plan B for a night. Had top-seeded Jacobs gotten off to a hot start and ...
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Give Zell credit for keeping it real: Wrigley merely an assetFeb 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Thanks to Sam Zell, reality is trumping romanticism at Wrigley Field. For decades the Cubs paid their bills by being about the smell of the grass, the crack of the bat a...
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Games can be friends indeed to those in needFeb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - Once again sports is charged with helping to heal the wounds of the world. Northern Illinois University's men's basketball team will play Western Michigan tonight in the...
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Stars special? You betFeb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - At the beginning of the season, St. Charles North girls basketball coach Katie Sauber sat her North Stars down and told them something that would eventually come true. "...
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Student-athletes play role in healing processFeb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - DEKALB -- If life truly were normal at Northern Illinois, Jake Anderson's Geography 101 class at 9:30 a.m. today would be held at Cole Hall 101. Yes, the same lecture ro...
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Burned twice, will Reinsdorf become gun-shy?Feb 24, 2008 10:00 pm - After last week's Ben Wallace trade, Bulls general manager John Paxson talked about being positioned for when the next major acquisition opportunity presents itself. Mak...
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Cutting bait with Wallace right move, but what next?Feb 24, 2008 10:00 pm - HOUSTON -- In the aftermath of Thursday's departure of Ben Wallace, the most comical occurrence has been the number of people claiming that no one criticized the Wallace...
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Holding on through this raw day and the rough ones to comeFeb 24, 2008 10:00 pm - DeKALB - Like whitecaps in winter, it crashed in frigid waves, taken by storm and tossed about. Uncontrollable and unmistakable, the pent-up tsunami of raw emotion rolle...
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It might be… It could be… It almost isFeb 23, 2008 10:00 pm - In football terms, Aurora Christian had just seconds remaining on the clock. To pull this one out, they needed a Hail Mary pass. So the school huddled with its extended ...
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Can't beat season filled with buzzer-beatersFeb 23, 2008 10:00 pm - Lou Gehrig beat me to the "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" by about 70 years. But that's just what I feel like this winter. I guess I'll jus...